The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan - S2 Ep11: The Darcecast

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

US TOUR ON NOW: https://www.jdfmccann.com/gigsPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/jdfmccann

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of the show. It's Darcy! And if everyone can please remain standing for the national anthem. All right. Hello everyone. Welcome to the... What was it called again? The Darce cast.

The Dascast. Brought to you by the James Donald Forbes-McCann Catamaran Plan. What he said? All right. What I want? That forward. Hello everyone. Welcome.

I already did this. Now, what are we going to talk about today? Dummy, Sam? Well, we've got some questions. You do! We've got some Darcy updates, obviously we can update on Darcy. Great. And some important McCann news.

All right, then. Important McCann News. Good to have a list, please. Thank you. Sorry. So you go to, tell the people you go to JDFMcCAN.com to find the tour dates. All right.

Everyone go to JDF McCann.com. Forward slash gigs. Forward slash gigs. All of these? All of them, please. It's like five months worth of... All right, he pays me.

How do I start? This isn't like, oh, he'll be three like from the 29th of the... Starting on the 29th of April. He'll be at the hyenas, comedy, nightclub and Alperkirkey. New Mexico, United States. And on April to the 29th, he'll also be there, again, the same place.

And on the 30th, you'll be in Phoenix, Arizona, the stand-up live at 7. May 1st, the American Comedy Company at San Diego, California, at 7. May 1st, same again. That's from May all the way to May 2nd. May 1st. It's just too much... he'll be in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

Phoenix, Arizona, San Diego, California, and then he'll be in Hollywood, California, and then Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Schaumburg, where's that?

Illinois, Shaunberg, Illinois, Royal Oak, M.I., Massachusetts, no, Michigan. And then he'll be in Toronto, Canada, New York, and then in Boston, Massachusetts, then Homestead, Pennsylvania, Homestead,

Pennsylvania, Orlando, Florida, Naples, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Denver, Denver, Colorado, Greenwood Village, Colorado, and then back to San Francisco, and that's from April to June. Well, may we get started with the questions. I've been informed that James himself has procured a list of questions cultivated by him, as I've already said, by you, to me. Questions, I don't know where the limits are, and I'm more than happy to answer, give an honest answer to any of these questions. Now, I have no forewarning about what these questions will be, about where they'll go, and I will. and I will still try to give an understanding over all of them.

I feel like I'm going to take an advantage of, but I'm fine with that. Anya, may you please give them to me? The first question is from pint snob. Pint snob, is that one word? Pint snob. Pint snob. Or pint snob. Pint snob or pint snob?

It's just one word. The knob or the snob? Pints knob, pint snob. I like to give him the benefit of doubt and say pint snob. Hopefully, I don't want to... Clearing the dirty mind, what's his question? The question is, how do we looks max to be like him? And I think him is you.

Well, I'd be honored if that was me. looks maxing is something I don't I don't identify with looks maxing but I know what he's trying to get it he's trying to get at about body care self care about the face and I do do

skincare regularly daily and I take care of my body and consequently my hair obviously dieting is something I haven't really gotten into but on the daily it's moisturiser and cleanser and then every now and again rice and it's not really looking rice rice masks not like you know i don't really i buy the little funny tube

and then i put it on event like sometimes and i feel like a right i've never actually heard of a rice mask i don't know it's like well the koreans do and they look like you know plato and i look but it's something i just dip in now and again and it feels weird saying i feel like james charles over here like oh don't don't both myself with skin acids and oil. I just put on a moisturiser and a cleanser. That's what I do. Sometimes it comes up really good,

and sometimes you need to be worried about the water where it comes from, so it doesn't badly react to what you bought, and how oily or scrubbed your skin is, depending if it's before or after a shower or after exercising. And exercising I do is every day. Every day I try and bike. If I don't bike, I run. If I don't run, I walk.

But you ran here, you were saying. I ran here. Nothing to boast about. It's damn near took me out. Sun's out on this wonderful day. Whatever the day is May, no, April the 20th? April the 27th. April the 27th.

We like to keep the podcast illineer. Illinear. So it's a wonderful March morning today. He's quite at the back of the class. But looks maxing, that's what I do. I don't do like the, whatever, the dumbbell. This is like, I've heard, I've heard plenty of maxing like, you know, as a post fix, a suffix, a fixed or whatever. But I didn't really know about looks maxing.

So, because I always thought that everyone is just trying to look their best. Which is, you know, what you'd hope. And this is like, in a. It's what you'd hope. for someone and their personal goals and struggles with themselves. And maxing, putting that on to anything like, as it looks maxing, there's a lot of other joke ones like the virtue maxing, which is being...

I'd like to think we're doing that here now. Virtue maxing. Oh yeah, that's very mainline. What do you believe looks maxing to be if you were to actually put a... Looks maxing is just like without interrupting you. I believe it's just it's people coming around and sort of going full circle to establish something for people to identify with when it comes to self meditating and looking after himself for obviously a goal. It's all coming from themselves. It's not for others. Some people can

easily get lost in trying to look their best, be their best, and sort of get confused about who they have to do it for. But Luke's maxing, I believe, or the concept of it, without the name, is just about being true to oneself in terms of appropriating the right, rituals and just making sure that they are well looked after and manicured. Is that what it is? I guess so. I mean, that's a much more charitable read of it than I'd heard other people saying. Well, I don't know much about it.

That sounds like a nice thing. It does sound nice the way I'm probably putting it. I just hear people just saying maxing on everything. I just don't know where the maxing has come from. Maxing is, I guess, well, it's very... literal in the sense of maxing out, going as far as you can with it. And that is, it is clivoclier, right? Is that how you say clivocler?

The popular one with the, you know, the chiseled jaw guy. I've only seen him on thumbnails of things, I've got to say. I don't actually. He's all about, I guess he's the one that's really into making it maxing because he's pushing what is, what would be a sensible limit. He's going beyond it and he's documenting it and people are getting, you know, he's getting traction on it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But he's doing it at expense of little, I guess, little humanities, I'd say. Because he's going into, you know, I only know that he's beating on the, like the jaw.

Some people will do hammers, I think. In order to want to minorly break bone in order for it to reform stronger. Is that the name? I guess. That's what I'd been told. It's like those boxes, you know, they get punched in the ears and the nose and it sort of becomes boldness. And their ears just get stronger. Yeah.

They look worse, but I guess if it's with the chin, the chin or other targeted areas where they want to look more in how they perceive themselves or what's societal expectation, or not expectation, but idealism of what they should be, what they want to be molded as. that's what they think the targeted areas are, is that they want to have stronger necks or stronger jaws, like have really sharp, defined gels to make them look, I guess, leaner, or as they would, you know, more attractive or notable in their pursuit of looks maxing. It's just being,

having a self, like reclaiming is reclaiming a self-respect and a self-honour to yourself. So it would be basic exercise. You don't have to go all out, but sort of exercise for maintenance, for stability. And it would be the same with skincare, where it's just on the daily or every now and again, no matter what buying expensive or cheap brands, just having something there to supplement what others would use just to make sure that you can polish yourself or make yourself look,

well, not trying to take it as far as other people, but just to get to a level where you can be happy. Be content with who you are and how you want to write your story and the way you want it to end and how you want to end up. What's the next question? It just made me think, sorry,

with the fitness element, as I wondered if our dear leader, James needs to do some looks maxing or some fitness maxing. He's desperate to get on Survivor. And I just picture him doing the physical challenges in Survivor. And I just wonder how, well, obviously, he's an incredible,

fit person and very strong and all these things, but I just wonder how he could become more fit and more strong. Well, it's always up to him. Being pressured into something or having an agenda you want to enforce on someone, where it's sort of ill-consensual is perhaps not the base principle of what looks maxing is. If he wants to pursue it, then by all means. means people should be there to assist them, not carry him, not do it for themselves to help him, but to help him for himself.

So what is the next question? This one's from Ben Johnson Music. Hello, Ben Johnson Music. Is Darcy living a secret double life? Did you handpick these? No, these were sent to me by James. just as big screenshots of the whole there's a whole bunch of these

is Darcy living a secret double life well it depends on what you'd define it as a would he mean life or would he mean a mask because everyone has social masks everyone like even with friend groups everyone has their own sort of friend groups environments and they want to hang around

but they put on a different mask they they sort of of choose what is seen and what's concealed about themselves. So when they go from group A to group B, sometimes they would just happen to move around and think and interact differently, say different things for different humours to be more bespoke to that group, not necessarily being true to oneself, but just to come off as a reflected character or a caricature of themselves to that group. If that is what he means about life of double life, I mean he could just be saying, you know, is he James Bond?

No. Both possibilities are likely. Everyone has different social mask. If that's what he's referring to, then, yeah, I do have different ways of interacting with different people. I do sometimes apply a mask to, like when I go to different groups, interact. I do do that, as is a lot of people. We go from different, like, even with family, it's as basic as, you know, school and home life.

You're not going to be as blasé, as casual, as potentially offensive, as with your schoolmates when you're joking, as you would be with your family, because it's sort of, it's either repealing what you are or what you're trying to be for another instance to either boost a showiness or a try and reflect a different value, to try and be more valuable to one because you want to,

it's either about fitting in or it's about being truthful or to tone down or to elevate yourself just to be someone who you'd think would be either admired or revered. Revereed? Is it right? It's definitely self-development. But there can be either stagnation if they choose to box themselves in

for the sake of either being, as they would view themselves easy or not difficult to handle, or just trying to, like I said, it's just going to start circling around to what I said before to tie in that they, you know, they're trying to paint themselves

of a different shade, but eventually it could either war off or they'll just start becoming that, their different shave. If that's who really would they want to be, but they might risk having an imposter syndrome. But that's more towards work where they don't feel like they belong because of, they feel like they've either ascended too high and feel like they should be handheld, but that's a completely different thing. Anyhow, third question.

This is from the William Schaefer. William Schaefer. What's it like working with James Donald Forbes McCann of the Catamaran Plan? In the environment that he sort of cultivates and is supported by his friends, it's very pleasant. It's fun. It is fun because everyone here has a mind, an artistic mind. They are freely allowed to put input in. They are allowed to share ideas.

and criticism doesn't isn't taken to heart it's a very nice environment here i'm not saying this because i'm boxed in and they're blocking the only exit out i'm saying this from heart this is like a very nice place to be in it is a nice environment wouldn't you agree or you would say something else yeah no no well yeah if that question was directed at me i would probably i think you put it you've put it very well. You put it very well. To the William Schaefer, it's very nice. This isn't like, um, there's a mob boss at the top and we have to obey him.

Even though that tends to be the outcome, it's still a very open environment. Sure, there's, uh, different roles to play or, you know, I'm not qualified. I'm not, uh, as, uh, would it be technologically minded? towards some of these things. I know that this is obviously producing light, but I couldn't set this up. I don't know. You are very valuable when it comes to that.

And I sit in a chair and talk. But you and everyone else that contributes gives something. And they are also given not only a respect, but a freedom to do what they do and what they are very intelligible about. in this playhouse that James runs. That would be it.

Someone said this. I don't know if it's like an easy question to answer or... Is it a bad question or just a very touchy one? No, it's just like, it's just not formulated very well. But like, I wonder if you could... If there's a subter... If there's something that you can feel like they're trying to grasp at, then... Yeah, I have a feeling that there's something underneath this.

I, let's hear it. This question is from Avery Dower comedy. Thank you, Avery Dower, comedy. And the question is, why? Darsie, why? Why what? Is this, this, this was posted on a Patreon. I believe so.

So this is just going to be, you know, from him saying, here's some questions. I don't know if there was like a, a prompt. No, I was just, and I think it was just an open thing, like questions for Darcy. Who wants to ask me? Why, Darcy, why? that's a why question mark darcy why question mark why why question mark darcy is there no question mark after darcy why question mark darcy why question mark i guess it's just wondering why i'm here well i'm brought a board which fair enough that's you that's you that's filled in those blanks i don't

know what else they don't trying to get at why why but what i think that i personally when i read that i i I thought to myself, I want to know what Darcy's why is. Actually, it's a different... What is Darcy's why? Why? I don't know. Why me? Why do I allow myself to be here?

Well, I've got nothing to lose, everything to gain, and I'm helping out. I guess that's going to be it because I don't know how else to play with this. I think that's fair. I don't know how I was to play with the question. No, that's a fair response. Absolutely. You're marketedly a fair person. See, there's ones that I don't want to ask.

I don't want to say the words out loud. And also don't want you to answer. I'll read them. Don't worry, don't. I'll happily read them. I hope it's got swear words in it. Tittorah, Sir Darcy. This is from, I'll read your name out, so you're not forgotten. Swavi 824.

Titora, Sir Darcy. Ask. Next one. Thank you. We'll get the tip later. Next question. Question four? I think we should,

after this question, I'll try and get James in. All right. You see if you can look up. It looks like we're getting a connection. Is he a time traveler from the 1930s? This is something that you've been accused of. Oh,

regularly through this community. Oh, there's good comments. Good comments. I love them. That's from T-E-E-E-D-D-D-D-D-D-W W.U. 20. So, two T-E's.

That could be a T-E-E-E-E. T-E-E-O-B-L-E-U-U-U-U-U-S-2-0. I don't want a name drop, but it sounds like a T-Gon, if it's two E's. But regardless. T-W. Yep. Am I time traveler? From the 1930s.

Spiritually, probably. Like, there's something definitely wrong with my head. I'll be honest. Like, I have this stand on record because I still. Like, you know, everyone's got a parent out there that, you know, really hordes all the kiddie stuff from like kindergarten, you know, the, you know, sent them off the school, he gets a little report card and they write in the little notes. One of mine from when I was five years old was that I spoke with an English accent. Very weird, but that's what's written down. And then at year nine, I had an accent change.

It was year 10 I had an accent change because like the SSO comes in. And he goes, oh, how are you doing? Oh, love to you see you. And then I speak two words. He's like, did you have an accent, James? And this is like a completely candid guy. And I don't know how he got to be an SSO. He's, as you know, he had a very big life. He was busy, but he picked it up. Hopefully not picking up the cricket noise, but it's all right. I don't know, there are weird things about me. I won't say my hobbies, my beliefs are,

but there is something that is definitely not fitting with the era we live in, this modernity, this current way of living that I disagree with, not, you know, rebelling against, naturally, not because I'm rebelling from a teenage angst, but it is sort of a disagreement that I have that somehow I find does align with certain aspects of old ways of living,

old views that can be seen as archaic or more so not anchored in either reality or scientific belief, whatever. But there is a weird like I can definitely say that something's a bit off which she's open blast you

I'm telling you that if something's wrong with me but I can physically know I just look old but yeah I probably got something old about me not helping the clothes but what's the so I'm just going to try and get James now

just changing a little battery but looks like we've got Jimmy looks like we got Jimmy on line. And he is currently in Texas. Yes. Austin, Texas. And I've got a friend who lives in Austin, Texas. Brian.

Brian. Strawn. Oh, he's going to hate me for that one. Yeah, I can docks him, but I'm not going to. Ah, I'm sure he's going to hate me. That's not, I'm helping him out. I'm giving him a shout-out. I don't even know if he has internet

where he lives. Okay Anyhow See if I can get James on the line here I'll have to hold my phone up Sort of to the camera I'm sorry But just see with James

I don't mind Just have a chat here with Jimmy Oh now you're calling him Jimmy Is he allowed to be called Jimmy? Yep Does he belt you if you do All right we got James on the line here He didn't answer

Hold Oh he's blinking Okay he's alive Hello Jimmy Can you say something You got us, Jimmy? He's blinking like he's being hypnotised.

I felt like he's about to reach through the screen and grab me. Can you see us, James? Hello. Jimmy. He's just moving his nose. He's not doing anything. He's just looking at you. Can you see Darcy, James?

He's not senile. It's coming closer. Can you see us? Jimmy, it can't hear us He must not be able to hear us He's making faces at us He is looking He feels like he's

He feels like he's giving a passing look Rather than looking at that sort of silent judgment He's just breathing He's like clearing his mouth of flame What is it? Maybe we'll try him again Sorry Darcy I mean for all I know he could just be

Uh Maybe he screens like I don't know. I'll try him again. Is there anything covering the camera? No, I don't think so. Because we can see him. I'll message him to say, do you see us?

He could be doing a bit for all we know. It can be the great period of a silence those are listening just by audio track. Yes. Phone Jack Doyle says, why did Andrew Schultz shave his mustache? Who's Andrew Schultz? I assume that's someone relatively well known in the modern day, not a historical figure, because... Hang on, I'll Google Andrew Schultz. So, S-C-H-H-E-E-S.

You know what I should have done, I should have rung the bell. That would have gotten his attention. I'm not Andrew Shorts. Hold on. Sheltz. Shultz. Shultz, like Sergeant Shultz. What a good last name.

Andrew Schultz, Andrew Schultz. He does have a very prominent moustache. But apparently he shaved it. That's him. So he's shaved his moustache. He does look kind of familiar now, but... Let's get some images. So why did he shave his moustache?

Oh. Oh, yeah. I tell you what it looks like. It looks like, um... Oh, there's your email. I don't... He's got that kind of, um... I don't know a good game.

program. Good game. Sort of on the ABC. Yeah, ABC. That guy reminds me of him. But he's got sort of that more of a narrow nose. I don't know. I was going to say some other comedian actor, but...

It's literally Angel Richard's is what I was thinking of. I didn't know his name. Why he shaved it? I don't know. I never met him. I don't know nothing about him. I don't even know. Is he, what, 46?

It could be my dad's age. He looked like a young guy. mostly um this is from fraser underscore r s fraser underscore r s that's an old fella did he enjoy rourkes drift i've never seen it to be honest but i know what the film is oh no he's referring to the battle because the movie's called zulu with michael kane and he's referring to the battle i was not there i would have loved it to be honest because it's just like dying around my junior high school friends but boy that would have had that would have been fun except if he died and it probably wouldn't have been but i i can't really say enjoyed the battle

i wasn't there that's a good question thank you fraser so when you walked in here dars you was sort of saying about the the post that we have up here i wonder if you could just take me through what you were kind of saying you wanted to do on the post leading me into it leading you're gonna what were you what were you wanting me to mean I said you wish that it was it was more solid I don't if I get out of the chair yeah please thank you sir my idea was that if this was you know load bearing okay maybe not load bearing but it was strong enough for me my idea was that I could could have dead hanged from here you know legs up and then it would have been zoomed in on

the camera right into the chair and what I've just dropped right down into it That's the entire bit. Okay. It would have been here. I would have gone, bam. And they said, that's the intro.

But I didn't get to do that because it didn't let me. There were safety concerns. So we don't have the proper insurances and things. I would have been fine, man. I'm 20 years old. I'm not going to die. Why do you...

You know something I don't, don't you? Right, sit down again. Unless you want me to... No, I'm happy for you to sit down. I just wanted to see you that. All right. Is there any more questions? There certainly is, Dars.

Yay. All right, get me in. Hold on. Yeah, you get where you're going. So beautiful. These poor people don't have to face me dead on. I mean, it's my best angle. There's lots of good angles going on.

James said, sorry, couldn't hear us, I think. He still, no. Probably saw us. I really should have rung the bell that would have gotten his attention. Joel. Stacey asks. That's a familiar name. Do you pine for Rhodesia?

Pined for Rhodesia. Given the national anthem you asked me to play. Was that the Rhodesia National Anthem? Well, I wouldn't know. I wasn't there. You've got to play one of the other colonial places. Those I know. I don't know anything about Rhodesia.

I mean, I did wear a hat coming here. She got me there. But I don't pine for it. Come on. I'm not even used to my backyard, let alone go to Rhodesia, Africa. Oh. You know what they do over there? I don't know what they do over there.

Fuck, awesome. I'm worried. I'm worried to find out. I don't know what they do over there, but I want to find it either. They're probably, you know, it's lawless place. Plays with poaches. They kill elephants. Elephants done nothing and they get killed.

Imagine me there. I die. You think you'd be a victim of Rhodesia? Is that what do you think? I don't know. No, I expect you going there as sort of a hero figure. Here? What have I done? A rebuilder.

Everyone there's going to be like seven feet tall when I walk in like a... Like Chef Skinner from Rotatoui. There's little midget coming. What am I going to do? I don't know, Daris. You've got a sort of power about you. Do I? Yeah.

Is that where people look at me? Thank you for being candid. I hope you're candid. I'm candid. I'm not paying you. Even for that. But I thought, like, people look at you weird. Obviously, no one.

dressed like this. I've dressed worse, round shorts and all, you know. But sort of, it doesn't rub. It doesn't get you. But it's sort of, you pick up of it and you just start to wonder why I look at me. Not that I can move on, please. Clear the table. Next question. A clearing, a clearing question. Mm. Wheelerly with three E's. Wheeler with three E's. G1. Wheely G1. Wearily G1. If you could have dinner with three people and they have to be alive oh who would they be and why Darcy why the three people not alive um everyone I sort of like is dead well my parents are alive but well there I still like them if I could have people with

dinner dinner not breakfast no brunch no not playing bloody back Ammon just three people uh uh Vladimir Feltzman, because his father is a famous Soviet composer, and there's no fucking information, sorry, no information. How do you have your father be one of the greatest Soviet composers of all the time and you don't even mention him in your autobiography? Well, I haven't read. But him, because I want to know, what was it like?

Having some guy who sings with, I'm going to go off, like, this is really revealing about the music I like, but he writes. songs for Evgini Kapkalo Sarga Lemshev Muslim Mogomayev

a couple of others like Mark Burns and you don't know you're just nodding good but you that's one

Vladimir Feltzman who's still alive is like 80 next one I don't know Polk Heating but no

he would just get angry dinner which is what I'm meant to do three's a crowd at that who else there's no one else them like really like to talk to

because they're all dead besides you use is wonderful uh I don't know really no one like there's people I'd like to you know argue with

people like to berate get some questions and answers out of them but people I really want to have an honest chat with and discuss things that's really it mean even with Vladimir Fletzman You don't know, because you know nothing. There's nothing.

It's literally just also just, I want something, I want to know something. There's nothing, there's no one that I know. I'm aware of that I can ask just to have a nice conversation with them. Anthony Hopkins about classical music. Because he did something, he did, the waltz goes on. And that's it. Maybe, we're throwing a wild card. Nelson Mandela.

He's dead. No, he's dead. We'll put Kanye West in there. Wildcard. This brings us on to the question from biboon.n.niboon.n.nibibibibibh. Which I like. Bibbon.bun.bun.n. And I'm just going to, I'm just going to take a little bit of free,

free creativeness about it. I want to do a little bit of creativeness on this question. So biboon.nibbi says what kind of music does he listen to? What kinds of philosophy does he like?

Well, music I listen to, which is something I'm not even been able to communicate to James himself. But I listen to a lot of jump blues. I listen to classical. I listen to it's a weird. It really is besides from a little bit of electronic I bring out again.

It's the wild card of my music, which is Soviet orchestrated pieces, Soviet-sponsored music, because it is just poetry. It's poetry with an orchestra, a piece of instrumental music. Obviously, there's going to be their pop music and their rock equivalent. But a lot of their old, more baritone singer and vocal-centric pieces, I really do like.

But then there's a lot of other things like, you know, jazz, easy listening, a few bit of, you know, standard pop, everything again, nothing modern, nothing from the last 20 years. It's all, I don't know, I don't jive of it. There's one thing I was actually wondering is what's your stance on Justin Bieber? Well, I was, what, 12 in the whole, you know, gone bowling and hearing, baby, baby, oh, you know that. I do not.

I No, I didn't listen to it anyway Nothing from the modern Justin Bieber He's still alive I thought he did the underwear model And that's it He just cracked it He did the drugs

And then Does he rap? Is he like Eminemann? Is he falling off? I don't think there's rapping I don't know what he does It's still swooning R&B Rhythm

Rhythm blues has really gone down to hill Like it was Rhythm of blues was just Elvis Presley doing blues and then that's just, or, you know, Big Joel Turner. And that's just gone right down hill to anyone just, you know, doing hip-hop with the funny hat and baggy pants, which... What are people that baggy pants do in winter? What do they do? Because you go shopping and it's like down, you could see hair.

You could see arse. What are you doing in winter? Do you keep the rainwater in there until spring? The... Why? I don't get it. So you like wit in pants, but just not baggy pants? I don't like that.

It can be sweatpants. It can be skinny jeans and they just wear it low. I don't know why. It doesn't make sense to me. I like pants that fit. I don't like the, you know, you wear them proper around the waist. You just don't let them sag. It's wrong with the belt.

I think a big problem in that community is silk boxes. Silk box. Having silk boxes. Silk briefs. Is that what they doing? Yeah. And I think that's what they're doing. why you get the slippage.

But I swear it's a deliberate choice because back to school, it's like they'd have sweatpants and they have adjustable waist and you can tie it like pajamas. And there's even people wearing pajamas or shorts and they allow it to slip. The second part of the question was... Oh yeah, the philosophy. Philosophy. Well, James has got me in a couple of philosophy books, right? Yeah.

You got me crime and punishment and obviously you got me. the political book, the Coldwell politician book, and then he got me the, the poetry book. Philosophy. I don't know how he wants with that. What philosophy do you like? Well, what is the philosophy you do you like? I like philosophy, but I can't really name something that I, like, I don't know any of the names that I can really shoot off the car.

to people to sort of explain what it is. It really have to be like a pamphlet, like a political compass. Like just the question, you know, not the actual compass. Just answer questions and someone figure it out for me because I just... I guess it... As I guess I'm not really literate on the ideas or the words or the concepts. But there is a belief within me and I just can't really get it out. I guess that's it.

That is a philosophy. I guess so. I mean, the way of believing is beliefs, call beliefs, what I want, what I think meaning in life is. I don't want to turn this into a lecture, but at the time, maybe someone can stop me on the street and ask. How is this feeling for you so far, Das? Feeling? Like being here? being the host of the James Donald Forbes

and James. Oh, it's fine. You can slip into it naturally, of course. It's just having material to work with. Obviously, I have to, because if it is sort of like a family, if this is whole crew and set up a small family, this is taking the place of the pairing.

There's no, yeah, come along, there's no following of a schedule. Obviously, you can be handed things to talk about. which I like to do it because it's not my podcast. This is just a branch, an offspring of it. I don't want to dominate and I don't want to be fed. I just want to be able to do something, but having to fit into this is like sitting here talking.

It's natural. But it's very, it's unstructured. There's nothing for me to really do. There's no, nothing to read. I'm being fed questions. There's no topic that I know and I can speak from. It's just collaborating or having a conspiracy between the small crew here. That's all there is to this.

So I'm still finding where I can be in this. But it's not unpleasant. It's still very good. Do you think that's something that James, like, goes? through in terms of being the host of the show. Like, there's something different that happens when you sat in that chair? Maybe. Maybe

it's probably why he has the bells. Like, every time he, I swear it's big, like, when he ends a segment or ends a rant, he rings the bell to refocus himself. I could be reading too much into it, but I think that's what he does to sort of end that and then slip into something new.

Back to the questions, please. So Todd Willis, 19... Todd Willis. 1996. Old. Yes? Who steps or one step when walking upstairs? Two steps. Too athletic for it. Well, too athletic for one. Plus, it just, it depends on the size of the step. If it's one of those, like, be grandiose, then you can be a bit showy and do one.

But that's because you're not in a rush, or just because you want to conserve energy or to, I don't know, snoop around just to be slow for whatever reason. but most of the time if you're trying to get somewhere, two steps. Random Frank P. Random Frank P. Thank you for the question. And thank everyone for the question. Dearest Dapper Darcy. Yes. If you could Freaky Friday trade lives with someone, who would it be?

Dera Rolla. Probably not someone who's dead. Trade lives. I saw the movie, I think. You know, the one with the, uh, Jamie, I mean, Tony Curtis's wife. No, kid. Jamie Lynn Curtis, right.

That's Freaky Friday, the movie? I'm not sure. I thought you were going to say Jamie Lynn Spears. I know Jamie Lynn's singer, Sigler. Who cares about Britney's sister? Unless, you know, it's someone popular. I hope it's not like Taylor Swift popular, and I just start getting beaten in the street for this.

But what was it again? How do we? If you could Freaky Friday trade lives with someone, who would it be? If I could Freaky Friday trade lives with someone. Excluding, you know, why would I, and content where I am, I guess, I don't know, someone, do I really want to chase wealth? Do I want to pick someone who's wealthy, someone who's more popular, someone who is a great, a platform. I'm not really hungry for those type of things.

Sure, you know, having wealth or having those things is nice, of course, but there's nothing I really want to trade lives with. I mean, being envious of like, I don't know. What can I say to sound youthful? Boyfriend of Billy Elish, sure? I don't know. That's just... Because I was wondering what type of experience you were wanting to attain through this

life swap. There's nothing. And I think it's quite clear. I mean, yeah, of course, who doesn't want to have like, oh yeah, I want to be a billion dollar earning, I want to be like Jeff Bezos, who doesn't want to be billionaire and then just have five wives, they all take a billion each and still be the richest man in the world or whatever the hell he is. nice but then I'd be bold I don't want to be bold and I don't want to be old

and I don't want to be American and did I say satanic evil baby killer not to bring down the level of this conversation for those topics but so J4993067 can Darcy scratch more lotto tickets well we didn't prepare so maybe next time Maybe when James is here so I can give him the $5. Was it $5 he won? Four. It was like a dollar scratchy and I won $2 so he could get more. I remember.

I believe that to be around here somewhere. Sorry, someone can say in the comments. Please comment down below so I don't look at it. But thank you. It's very nice for you to comment. We have Robbie for Mayor. Roby for Mayo. That's a four.

Four. I'm running for mayor of my little town. Any advice not falling for IPAC money? IPAC, so that's... AIIPAC? IPACs, that's what independent... No, I swear it's a public lobby group. I think he's just trying to say,

how do you run for mayor and send you two own legs? And you want to be grassroots. You get the community behind you. Obviously, building yourself up takes time. And I don't want to say, oh, Roman Muslims are building a day. Come on. Give it more. But it's going to be slow.

It's like building a muscle. It's like defining your body. You have to work at it. You have to really constantly work at it. And, of course, you have to be... Some people are naturally blessed with, you know, having... being able to attract people to their personality, especially really does help in a...

a political sense if you're running for mayor. But it's depending on what kind of country town it is, because I assume it's a country town. I think it's a suburban town. A little town. A little town. L-I-L-L-L-L-L-Town. Little town, so probably a small town. You've got to live, breathe, most importantly, break bread with the people of that town.

You don't want to feel like you're sort of outgrowing your shoes, but you have to feel like you're sort of that they can tell, they can pick up on what you want to do and that they can easily get behind you. They don't want to feel like it's sort of a given take, I assume. I never been in this scenario, but if you don't want to be bank run,

if you don't want to be held by a leash, which can also be your noose when it comes to being funded or having a, having to stick with advertisements or policies or having a handler for those sorts of things. If you just want to be yourself, you have to work on yourself. And you have to spread, you have to work from the inside out, slowly get into people's lives. You have to slowly assert that you're not going to be a dominating force.

You're going to be more of a helping hand, I guess, when it comes. comes to trying to run for mayor. It's a very weird question to ask me, but. But I think you've given really good advice. Maybe I have. I mean, who knows? He could be a mayor, and I'd like to go to whoever this is, unless it's in Victoria. It's Robbie for mayor.

Robbie for mayor. Bella, Bella Curry, one. Bella Curry one. Single, question mark? Well, I've got to give the... Bella Curry one. I mean, physical attraction

should be more of a cherry on top rather than a, like I saw. But when it comes to, you know, relationships, just before I answer,

when it comes to asking out having a crush, physical good attraction is a necessary condition, but it's not sufficient. It should be more of a cherry on top, rather. You're looking to be there for character

and for personality. You want to be there, so that you can find a love, you can find camaraderie and affection in them whether they're 20 or 80, which is always about character. Because can I give a quote? To quote, I guess paraphrase. No, it's quote. Quote Alfred Hitchcock, the director.

All breast sag eventually. That wasn't as funny. But that's it. So am I single? Yeah. There you go. That's as much fluff as I can put into answering such a single, simple question. Because it's yes or no.

It's got to be something I can really, sorry. It's got to be something I can really, you know, pull out the meat of. A yes or a no. There's a simple question. And plus they're the easiest to lie in. Easiest to lie in a yes or no. Especially like, I hang around a lot. lot of store people, you know, shoe sellers or whatever they'd sell.

Yes or no is the easiest to either pressure someone in. I'm sorry, we do actually have James McCann on the phone. Oh, he's wearing a hat. Hang on. Hey, hey. Take the phone. Oh, okay. Hey, thank you.

Can you hear it? Yeah. Yeah, you're on the pod. Oh, oh. Hey, oh. Do you go for the crows? Yeah. I don't.

Oh my. Yeah, we've all been drinking. So you've got. Hell yeah. Yes. It's a funny look and a big one. Love you, boy. Love you, Jimmy.

So the last question. was am I single? I said no yes yes yes I'm single well they're the easiest ones to lie on right yeah like you think I got like five wives at home Darcy would you travel to America that's asked by Andy Bricks 211 I'd love to go to America and like I have like it's not because I have friends in America or there's like you know peaches fruits that I can harvest in America you know business dealings I want I just love to go there because I'd be like one of those Japanese tourists.

I go to like to, you know, one of those big moles or those McDonald's or the, you know, those funny American places. Like I really would be like the Japanese tourists. Like, oh, look, look. It's Statue Liberty or, you know, a really American site, like someone like pissing on the American subway or something. Things like that. That's what I'd really like to see. Oh, sorry. Things are like, I'd really like just to go there and be as touristic as I can.

Not like, I've been to America. and I saw Hawaii, which is different, but you really have a lovely blast there. I would love to go to like Five Guys or Outback Steakhouse, you know, where they have the fried onion or whatever they do. Oh, it's going to be wonderful, because then you can play into being an Australian. And that's what you're like, that'd be cool. Because you get to play a character.

No one knows who you are. You get to go rampant with it. And plus you get to, you can be your own person and you can also be like a little gag you know walking to a bar and his eyes in Australia and everyone comes around I don't know if it's like that and I don't I watched a lot of movies but it'd be blast to go there I'd love to go to America for a week not long like if it's a full year you know where they have the tornadoes and the hailstorms and the uh the things starting with S that were not allowed to

Don't say the S word, please. Yeah. Chris underscore de Moose underscore. Chris, thank you Chris. Asks what bril cream does he use? I do have bril cream at home, but I never use it. I do like the dry look, not because it's, I'm trying to be mod or modern. It's, I mean, I do feel comfortable with having dry modern hair, but I'm getting into more of a shorter on all sides.

So, Brill cream doesn't really like it because I don't have the hair for it. Because when it goes flat completely, it makes me look like I have a swollen skull. It's like I'm bolding if it's completely flat, and I don't like that. I don't like really flat hair. I like it to stick upwards. Like a flat top. I like a flat top, but it's high maintenance, and I can't afford that. But I don't use Brill cream.

I had it once, and I never used it. That's it. I really am looking always at Sam. Never looking at that camera. That's the problem that James has. So it's a real magnetism to looking down this camera because I'm manning this camera. You're talking to someone. You're talking to a person, which is how you conversate.

And that's why it was so hard. Last time I was here talking behind. It was much more comfortable and easy talking to Sam. And then it was to the back of someone. Not because, oh, it's about disrespect, but it's just hard to really conversate. as it would be like online in a microphone when you're not looking at a face at all when you're facing behind him there's nothing really can get a like to identify you know facial expressions or whatnot it's just hard to get a read it seems like talking to a brick

wall not that there's no feedback but it's just hard to pick up the feedback well i was thinking of putting a tv screen that had the live feed of that camera behind james is back for you to look at when you're sitting there. How would you feel about that? What has to be said is that the split screen on the final output looked great. It did look great. And it looked like you guys were really talking to each other. And I almost like the energy there.

I mean, the split screen, I know having a monitor, very avant-garde, very avant-garde, not main light at all. because who else is coughing out the money for that. Oh, Darcy, like, in the spirit of Mainline and avant-garde, the spirit that's running through this pod, what, you know, where do you think today's pod has landed in that dichotomy? Today's pod, I mean, from what I don't know, most podcasts are not solo.

It's very hard to keep a modern podcast. That's more, like, there are people that do that. There are people that do that, but it's more like, it reminds me of that Korean thing Macbang where it's sort of where they eat it and you know from I guess from a common mind you think oh

this seems weird you film yourself eat and not for the purpose of talking but just to eat so others can eat while you're watching that to feel like you're connected that there's a, not just a continuity, but I guess a conspiracy. They're both eating at the same time, having a blast. But a solo podcast is something that it feels weird because there's, only thing you really can focus on is just talking.

That's it. There's no eating, which obviously would, you know, put your mind into a lull and it would obstruct your mouth and you got one goal. But you're jumping back and forth of the podcast. and having it just be me here talking with a couple of crew, Sam and Hamish, and it can feel avant-garde because I'm here alone, mostly, just talking to a camera,

which I'd say if this was an original thing, well, podcasting with one person is, I guess, avant-garde, because it's just filming yourself. I'm not very, very well soaked into media stik or influencing or social media at all. So this weird mutation of public speaking is not natural. Well, it's natural, but it feels unnatural because it's just me. It's like talking to yourself, but you've been recorded. And talking to yourself can feel natural.

It can feel inexcusable because it's a, I guess it's a psychological, what would be, it's an excuse for something else. And it's like having a monologue with your inner monologue to get words out. It's more, it's verbalized. It isn't just thinking of silence. and when it is just talking with yourself and talking with not just not just yourself but also trying to bounce off between crew

and the camera that I'd say is avant-garde because it's talking to a mirror in both a a mirror of someone else and of yourself while you're in the central I'm trying to get this into an imagery, but it's like being sandwiched between your reflection and someone else's.

It can, when you wake up to it, it can be weird, but it also can have a floyd to it. So I think that's how this would be. I'm trying to really put all this rubble together to give an argument. It's, you know, on the social media sort of. this big open, open sharing market that it is. There's a different, there's a target audience, the intended audience, and those who come around, and obviously there's, you know, stragglers, everything going to blow in. And the whole battle for this avant-garde or being avant-garde or having a different way,

style, not a fashion, a style to it can bring, and it has brung, rung's a word, right? It is brought. It is brought an audience. And some people will come along because it can be a popular, some people come along because there's a crowd, but some people come because they see what the crowd is talking about, and they want to get in on it, not because there's many others. are looking at it. They want, they're, they're looking for the, the object of discussion. I'm trying to, once again, when I sort of, I feel like I'm trailing off. I don't know if this

is really clear, but if I can get it out on the table for everyone to try and understand what I'm getting at, then calling back to the reference of, I understand why there's something that's unique and something that's mainline. That's why there's something, it's not branching, it's just giving an alternative, not as a replacement feeling, but as, how do you like it? Is it for feedback or is it just because you believe artistically that this should be stepping outside of the boundaries and normality? There's an originality in soul to having your own form.

And of course, you know, being copied means that it's not only being flat. If this was being copied, being avant-garde, going out and having this guerrilla filmmaking interviews, that's very flattering. And also it means that someone is seen what you're doing and is either seeing it as either they're going somewhere, I should copy it or I believe and I like what they're doing, I want to do my own flavor. And I guess when people do avant-garde and it sort of becomes mainline, I guess we'll only be by two reasons. It's either because they settle for becoming mainline or because avant-garde has become mainline. so they've either

settled down and either stopped pursuing becoming different or that different has become mainline. I think that's it. Now, I've been handed,

we've been handed all of these spray happy spray cannon. Funny working title. And we're going to go shoot them off. This is going to be the blessing of the newly appointed

was it Darcy, Darcy caste? The Dascaste. Dascast. A product of Catamaran Industries. A product of a happy product of Catamaran Industries. The Dascast. Now, we are going to

give this blessing to it and well, not much else to say. Thank you everyone. I am grateful, honestly, for this opportunity and for having you here today, watching the Dascast

which is a proud product of James Donald Forbes McCann's Catamaran Industries I love you all please have a lovely day a lovely week have a happy life I want you

I need you and you deserve to be wanted loved and cared for thank you so much three two one I got a dud

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